Writings

Brian McLaren will be in town this weekend for his Everything Must Change Conference. This tour is presented by Deep Shift, and Saint Paul School of Theology is a local sponsor. The event is this Friday and Saturday (April 25th-26th). Registration info can be found here. Registration for Seminary students is $35. More info on the conference here.

As well, Tim Keel will be leading a pre conference as will Mike King. Information on Tim's Intuitive Leadership conference here. Information on Mike's Prelude conference here.

If you plan to be around people in the next 5-10 years then you need to take in these conferences!!!

We invite you to join us for the 2007/2008 lunch gatherings... We have booked Holter room 7 for the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month. If you are interested in talking about mission and ministry in the postmodern context we hope you will drop by. We plan to gather for lunch from 12:00 to 1:00 or 1:30...Typically there is no set agenda, just conversation... In the past we have invited professors and local pastors as guest conversation leaders, so that may happen again from time to time. Hopefully we can get Tim to come by and talk about his new book and Mike to come by and talk about some of the exciting stuff that is going on at Youthfront...

At the November 7th lunch gathering we spent quite a bit of our time reviewing a series of dichotomous characteristics that can be seen between modernity and postmodernity. The majority of these comparisons come from Tim Keel, Tony Jones, Dan Kimball, and Brian McLaren. The graphic representations are pulled from a variety of resources and personal experiences, and try to capture the holistic nature of the exploration of 'kingdom life' (Doug Pagitt) in the postmodern context...

Here is the powerpoint that we looked at (extremely under-developed, but a fair starting point...)

I have reserved room three in the Holter Center, on Tuesday November 7th, for an impromptu lunch conversation...We have no formal agenda other than spending a short amount of time discussing the recent UMerging Colloquy" held a month ago at Church of the Resurrection. I you have any thoughts, questions, or observations regarding the engagement of mission and ministry in the context of the emerging postmodern culture we hope you will join us.

SPST Emergent will be hosting the viewing of a documentary that explores the "interesting," and disturbibg life-work of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas. This documentary was produced by University of Kansas film student Ryan Jones, and will be screened on Wednesday October 4th at 7pm, in Hendrix Hall. The documentary, "Fall From Grace" is 71 minutes long and will be followed by an hour, or so, of conversation and dialogue with the film-maker. This version of the documenatry contains updated and additional content that was not in the first version that we screened last semester.If you have any question please email me. Click here to got to Ryan's 'official' website....

Dan Kimball wrote two blog posts, in April, that dealt with the terms "Emergent" and "Emerging" as they serve illuminate current conversations about engaging mission and ministry in the 21st century... Both posts contain a great deal of historical information, and both serve as one persons attempt to articulate the current use and recent evolution of the terms...

Excerpt... "I was inspired to take a few moments from reading Marko's postthis morning called "This is Emergent" which is great as it expresses some of the metaphor of the meaning of the actual word emergent.

However - since I get asked this so incredibly often "Where did the term 'emerging church' start?" or what is the difference of "Emerging" or "Emergent" that I thought I would continue Marko's wondering of where the terms originated and also have a post I can then refer people to who ask me this a lot. To some you may not care at all about things like this, but for me it will help putting it here and then referring people to it who ask me."....

Excerpt... "I started writing what I understand as the origins of the terms "the emerging church" and "emergent" or "the emergent church" in the previous blog entrywhich wasPart 1.

With all the wondering about the origins of the names and even web sites, I was motivated to look up web sites to see when they were first started in figuring out the time period when these terms were being used. Tony Jones suggested I post these dates here for those wanting to know more about timing and origins." ....